| Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by, or paying off, the local warlord. |
| Numerous small packs of hounds were kept by people in all walks of life, as they rambled through the countryside pursuing their quarry. |
| The viewer is faced with the aftermath of an unspecified disaster, and a countryside filled with wandering loners on the brink of oollapse. |
| The soft acid rain that has fallen this summer has the countryside a veritable patchwork quilt of colour. |
| The pangs of hunger afflicting the countryside has jolted the nation into realisation that food security ought to start at a household level. |
| In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent. |
